"while airborne" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an object or person that is in the process of flying or that is located in the air. Here is an example sentence: "The skydiver caught the flag while airborne."
Instead, while airborne, he was hit high and hard, and landed without the ball.
Leo assured us that, autopilot technology notwithstanding, he never worked on cartoons while airborne.
Travellers who worry about feeling out of touch while airborne will welcome these improvements.
Unfortunately, Komfort Pets hasn't gotten airline approval to plug in within cargo holds, so it can't be used while airborne.
The only clues to the plane's whereabouts have come from complex "handshake" signals it sent to a satellite while airborne.
This has not been proved, and indeed the European Aviation Safety Authority permits texting and calls while airborne.
But like every other bar, the Sótano Suizo pub was heaving last Sunday (while Eduardo Félix Arellano was airborne, handcuffed), for the climactic football match of the season Mexicans call 'El Clásico' between Club América of Mexico City and Chivas of Guadalajara.
For a while, Concorde was airborne again, plying the Atlantic in three and a half hours with its payload of monied devotees happy to pay the £8,000 return fare.
But it was intended, like its fictional counterpart, to launch and receive planes while itself airborne.
She said the midcourse system recently intercepted a test missile, while the airborne laser is on track for a similar test this year.
Writing about the altercation on Facebook while still airborne, Ms Ahmad recounted asking the cabin crew member for an unopened can of Diet Coke "due to hygienic reasons".
